I am a german mathematician working now as a software developer here in Bielefeld, programming in Perl and other languages.
My nick name Crian comes from my Christian name, what is "Christian" *g. When you slice enough letters out of it, "Crian" remains.

When putting a smiley right before a closing parenthesis, do you:

Use two parentheses: (Like this: :) )
Use one parenthesis: (Like this: :)
Reverse direction of the smiley: (Like this: (: )
Use angle/square brackets instead of parentheses
Use C-style commenting to set the smiley off from the closing parenthesis
Make the smiley a dunce: (:>
I disapprove of emoticons
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